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Joshua
Liao
MD
MSc

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Research
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Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Systems & Population Health
Associate Chair for Health Systems, Department of Medicine
Medical Director of Payment Strategy, UW Medicine

Bio

Dr. Liao completed medical school at Baylor College of medicine and trained in internal medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital where he was also a Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Liao has committed his career to improving health care payment and delivery. He works on this mission in several ways, including local system change, scholarship and evaluation, and policy. Currently, he provides recommendations about payment models to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services through service on the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC). Dr. Liao also serves on national committees for the American College of Physicians and a payment advisory group for the American Academy of Family Physicians. 

His scholarship focuses on how systems of financing and delivering care work together with human behavior to affect health outcomes. Equity in payment and care delivery redesign is a key focus of this portfolio, which spans federally funded grants, collaborations, and advocacy work. Most recently, Dr. Liao has spearheaded a limited podcast series, Health Equity Conversations, featuring the work of people and groups working to improve equity through payment and other systems change.

Dr. Liao has published 200+ articles, including over 160 in peer-reviewed medical journals. He has given >70 national and international presentations. His ideas and insights have appeared in outlets such as the Washington Post, Forbes, STAT, the Boston Globe, NPR, Harvard Business Review, the Seattle Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Health systems-related activities

Education

  • Health Care Executive
  • CME
  • GME

Policy

  • National (Committees, American College of Physicians)
  • National (PTAC, Department of Health & Human Services)
  • State (Advisory Groups, Health Care Authority)

Research

  • Policy
  • Economics
  • Health Services

Mentorship